After seven earlier films reaching back a decade, the Harry Potter saga comes to a solid and satisfying conclusion in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. The finale conjures up enough awe and solemnity to serve as an appropriate finale and a dramatic contrast to the light-hearted (relative) innocence of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone all those magical years ago.

Harry, Hermione and Ron are grown up now, and Harry has even grown the facial stubble required of all epic heroes. The time has come for him to face Lord Voldemort in their final showdown, and their conflict is staged in a series of special effects sequences containing power and conviction. I am still not sure what the bolts discharged by magic wands actually consist of, but never mind: They look wicked and lethal.

I dare not reveal a single crucial detail about the story itself, lest I offend the Spoiler Police, who have been on my case lately. Besides, you never know: Maybe they've completely rewritten J.K. Rowling's final book in the series. Maybe Harry dies, Voldemort is triumphant, and evil reigns. Full review.

Back in 2008, developer David Hilliard began his "Lodge at Old
Trail" project, a senior living community in the heart of Old Trail
Village in Crozet. He was hoping to create what he calls a
multi-generational community, where seniors who wish to live
independently or need assisted living or special medical
services can live among their children and grandchildren. Now dirt
has been moved, foundations poured, and steel framing has been
going up fast, bringing the project closer to
reality.

No thanks to the Albemarle County Service Authority, however, which
refused to budge on a policy under which water and sewer
connection fees can be paid only once a building permit is
issued.

Hilliard and other developers had tried to persuade the
Authority to allow them to pre-pay for service connections, but the
board said no, a decision that has ended up costing Hilliard
over $500,000. That's because back in 2008, the connection fee
for the 126 units was around $200,000. When the development ran
into delays, no permit was issued, and today, the connection cost
is around $700,000.

Still, Hilliard appears to be trying to use the situation to
his advantage, emphasizing in a recent release that the development
will not only bring jobs to the area (100 by the time the place is
finished), but the recent payment of the connection fee has added
nearly three quarters of a million bucks to the Authority. So
this...

It was late spring when Kim Simmons approached the Kmart
pharmacy seeking the over-the-counter emergency contraceptive Plan
B. In her 40s and the mother of a 22-year-old son, Simmons says she
and her boyfriend practiced safe sex but had experienced a prior
night condom failure that Simmons feared could put her health in
jeopardy.

"If I become pregnant, it could kill me," says Simmons, citing
an existing medical condition.

What began as mild embarrassment over the $40 purchase soon
turned to anger as the pharmacist on duty refused to ring up her
purchase.

"He said, 'I'm not going to sell it to you,'" Simmons recalls of
pharmacist Kevin Wright, who, Simmons says, described himself as a
"conscientious objector."

"He told me there were plenty of other stores I could get it,"
says Simmons, who left Kmart and purchased the drug across the
street at Kroger. Months later, however, she remains outraged.

"He was trying to control my body," says Simmons. "I would never
want to have an abortion, but by him denying me [Plan B], I could
have been faced with that decision."

Citing corporate policy, Wright declined comment, but according
to Illinois-based Kmart corporate spokesperson Kimberly Freely,
Kmart– like other pharmacies– allows its pharmacists to decline the
sales of any medications to which they object on moral or religious
grounds as long as they direct the customer to a another pharmacist
or empl...

Trump's signs pepper the main driveway, an apparent effort to drive down the price of Albemarle House.

photo by Hawes Spencer

Moses and Kluge cut the ribbon at the science building last fall.

file photo by Dave McNair

Donald's land envelops Bank of America's land.

hook graphic

Eric Trump says he'll have the wedding pavilion renovated and reopened in time for the fall matrimonial season.

photo by Hawes Spencer

This is the first thing anyone driving into Albemarle House will see-- that Trump has marked his territory.

photo by Hawes Spencer

Kluge and Moses have petitioned the court to hold on to this decrepit but promising 1842 house called Ellerslie.(ONLINE ONLY PHOTO)

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Patricia Kluge has always had a knack for strategic moves, so
why should her personal bankruptcy be any different?

As lenders converged to seize her winery and her beloved 45-room
Albemarle House, she found a way to seize an opportunity– to get a
longtime chum who also happens to be America's top dealmaker to
deliver a new message: This land is now… The Donald's land.

That's the point conveyed by dozens of no-trespassing signs
recently erected by the man who turned "You're fired!" into a
catch-phrase and whose books on real estate include such titles as
How to Get Rich and the memorable Think Big and Kick
Ass.

Donald Trump has brought his hard-bargaining style to the
Charlottesville area.

By purchasing the fields surrounding Albemarle House and letting
the grass grow high, Trump (as first reported by the Wall
Street Journal) has begun sending sly signals to prospective
buyers that the 23,000 square-foot mansion might have many
luxurious amenities. But a front yard is not one of them.

"This is one of the most interesting plats of a home I've ever
seen in my life," says Charlottesville real estate broker Roger
Voisinet, as he eyes a map of the property which shows that
Albemarle House sits on a gerrymandered lot offering less lawn than
any starter home in Forest Lakes.